Welcome to the global phenomenon, Surviving the Survivor, where we bring you the best guests in all of true crime.

Here's your host, Emmy Award winning journalist Joel Waldman.

What's up, St.S Nation?

Welcome to another episode of Surviving the Survivor.

It is the podcast that promises to bring you the very best guests in all of true crime.

It is not a tagline.

It is our reality here day in and day out, and you're in for another treat.

We're talking about some difficult subjects, but we have a fun crew, and we're going to make it fun, even if it kills us.

I'm in a weird mood.

I don't know why.

Overtired and feeling the heat from promising all this breaking news, and then every

second there's something breaking.

And I feel like I'm back in my old stomping grounds, but at least I don't have to hop

on a plane every single time and miss my kid's teeball game that i attended today so we are uh getting

into uh the rich the reckless and the ruthless uh that last part shout out to uh ned smith for

the ruthless part but that is the thumbnail we're going to be a question. Why are people rich and they become reckless and ruthless?

It applies to a bunch of the breaking news stories.

I'm going to kind of update.

We're going to weave our way through the three big stories.

Maybe, yeah, three big stories.

I had to count that in my head for a second.

And then we're going to get some investigative analysis from Rob DeMico.

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